48 Comments Posted by Spad

Probably just some coffee or leftover lunch dumping from whoever was contracted to shut the place down.

@Bobo Miller Yep - TV antenna. I stil remember going outside and twisting the pole untill my dad yelled when the picture was at its best, lol

Very fortress-like.

Ref the seat and different materials . . . probabloy survivors of various restorations done during its history. I can understand a school pinching pennies by only reparing what was totally worn out.

Excellent photo!

Looks like the old military issue glasses I had . . . sturdy but lacking in the style area, lol

Often, used and/or old medical equipment from hospitals, etc. cannot be easily reused once the facility shuts down, especially if it was a state owned facility - unless the regulations of that state allow it to be recertfied for other use. This usually applies to sophisticated electrical or electronic equipment such as x-ray machines, etc., which often have aged to the point where it isn't worth the repair/upkeep costs to get them recertified, if they can be recertified at all once moved. At some point equipment is just too old to be used anymore. This shouldn't apply to implements like pictured here, as age does not really affect them, but regulations for use apply to them as well. Part of the problem is there doesn't seem to be much of a market for old medical tools. A state just can't give taxpayer owned items away without legislative action, and I'd imagine if there a big demand for these implements some bright entrepreneur would have petitioned the state to purchase them for resell. Perhaps someone will. Shame for them to just sit.

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I doubt it's rust water . . . I've never known rust suspended in water to be have the consistancy of syrup. That foot print looks like the result of some viscous liquid. The print is too crisp for just plain rusty water in my opinion.

The symbol could have been put there when the lowered ceiling was being installed, maybe? That would have given someone something to stand upon, and it would have hidden the symbol from sight at the time. I don't feel placing the symbol there was intended to be a malicious act . . . after all, there is nothing malicious about the symbol itself. A mystery that may never be solved.

A death mask is wax or plaster cast made of a person's face following death. They were (and are still, I assume) made as momento's or to make a portrait of a person. Death masks were made of George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and several other notable figures in history. Life masks are also made the same way.

@Jason Linetsky . . .

I think it looks like the chinese (simplified) symbol for "Mother" Only real difference in the pictured symbol is the absence of a top line, but it appears from the photo there may have been one originally. That's my best guess.

The odd symbol looks like the chinese symbol Mu, which means Female, or Mother. Makes a bit of sense as this place had been used by Nuns in the past. Wonder who put it there? I doubt it is an original decoration, as Mott said it wasn't as decayed as other aspects of the building.

Wonder who the last person to exit those doors was? And when was it?

@flushed I'd heard that too about skeletons from India . . .